Inspired and thoughtful, Sharon. Your Moon series continues to be elegant,
important, and affirming.
Thanks so much,
Judy
2008/12/16 sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]>
> Cold Moon
>
> Each month I show you the same face,
> and you call me a different name.
>
> Now you call me Cold Moon,
> but I am always cold.
>
> You call me Long Night Moon,
> but my nights are always long,
>
> bright on one side, dark the other.
> I am the same, always, and you
>
> make of me what you desire. Magical,
> monstrous, indifferent, muse.
>
> I pull at your blood, and you
> deny me. We yearn for one
>
> another, stone of my stone, fire
> of my fire, night of my night.
>
> ******************
>
> Dec. 12, 11:37 a.m. EST — Full Cold Moon; among some tribes, the Full
> Long Nights Moon. In this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and
> the nights are at their longest and darkest. Also sometimes called the
> Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate
> name because the midwinter night is indeed long and the moon is above
> the horizon a long time. The midwinter full moon takes a high
> trajectory across the sky because it is opposite to the low Sun. The
> moon will also be at perigee later this day, at 5:00 p.m. EST, at a
> distance of 221,560 mi. (356,566 km.) from Earth. Very high ocean
> tides can be expected from the coincidence of perigee with full moon.
>
> ~ sharon
> Watermark
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